The Three Great Alabama Icons
2001 · Soul Dump None · Athens, Georgia
- Artist
- Drive-By Truckers
- Title
- The Three Great Alabama Icons
- Release
- Southern Rock Opera
- Year
- 2001
- Label
- Soul Dump # None
- Format
- CD · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Athens, Georgia, USA
- Songwriter
- Patterson Hood
- Genre
- Narration · Narration
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Notes
Southern Rock Opera, Soul Dump Records 2xCD, 25 September 2001 (reissued by Lost Highway, 16 July 2002); disc 1 track 8, 6:51, spoken by Patterson Hood over the band. The monologue on George Wallace, Bear Bryant and Ronnie Van Zant says Van Zant wrote Sweet Home Alabama in the tradition of Merle Haggard writing Okie From Muskogee to give his father's view of the hippies and Vietnam. [From Justin A. Brummer notes from RYM; Wikipedia]
About the artist
American rock band formed 1996 in Athens, Georgia, by Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, both from the Muscle Shoals area of Alabama. [Source: Wikipedia]